[BILL PLAYING AN ABLETON LIVE PROJECT]

BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com in my continuing demo on the BCR2000 from Behringer.

Now something really cool about this again, we're operating in USB mode. We can again assign four encoder groups to our different effects, so I can literally have all the controls for any effect that I want on each of these, or I can team up effects. One thing I used to do is have multiple beat repeaters here and just control the steps and the variables with two of these and I had four different tracks running. Since then, I've realized that I really don't need a beat repeater on every track. What I can do is set up a master. So what I've done here is set my master to contain my beat repeater and my auto-filter.

First, let's take a look at the beat repeater and how that's set up. I have this as my on switch. I could probably use one of these, not within my better judgment I set a knob, but knobs again do work like the buttons so I mean it -- but knobs do work like the buttons so it's not a big deal. I'm going to play this back real quick and show you what this can do for me [BILL STARTS PLAYING ABLETON LIVE PROJECT], so I turned it on [BILL TURNS ON BEAT REPEATER].

Now here's something you'll run into sometimes. When two controls double up on each other, you'll see number 3 here has teamed up with the variable control so I'm going to change it up, but I have my grid control, which is sort of the major control for controlling this. If I want to change up how the actual stutter sounds, I can do this. [BILL APPLIES STUTTERING EFFECT TO TRACK].

What you're hearing here -- it sounds like it's turning into a synthesizer -- it's actually the pitch decay, check this out [BILL PLAYS BACK PROJECT AND APPLIES PITCH CONTROL]. If you want to get rid of that delay, you can take the offset back if I go over here. I can start right at the beginning [BILL PLAYS BACK PROJECT AND APPLIES PITCH CONTROL], change up my grid. [BILL APPLIES VARIOUS STUTTERING EFFECTS]

Now, if you change the pitch, you can actually make it change what the pitch is coming out from that decay. [BILL MODIFIES PITCH IN TRACK] and you can change up the offset, change it when it starts and where the actual gap is. [BILL MODIFIES PITCH IN TRACK]

You can change up the variation or change the actual pattern of that. Also, you'll notice I was keeping my gate earlier. I'm finding a control for [INDISCERNIBLE]. This changes the actual amount of distortion and beat repeat that you get so let's take this back to the beginning, change up the gate. I can actually make it cover all four bars if I want [BILL MANIPULATES TRACKS], and then you can open it up at the very end [BILL CONTINUES MANGLING TRACKS].

You can stop using the pitch if you want. I'm just using this for example right now, but if take the pitch all the way out, it's a normal stutter effect. [BILL CONTINUES MANIPULATING TRACK]

Moving on to the auto-filter effect, we hit filters, and again I have this is my on switch, move this over, and you can see how this works. This is a lot simpler than the beat repeater. The beat repeater just has a lot of really cool options that you can utilize, basic low pass filter, resonance, filter cutoff. You can also set our high pass and low pass filters or set to band pass, see if I have that set right now. I can either go through here [BILL CONTINUES MANIPULATING FILTERS], that's a high pass [BILL CONTINUES TO USE HIGH PASS FILTERS], band pass [BILL SWITCHES TO BAND PASS FILTER], and go back to my low pass since I tend to this one the most. [BILL SWITCHES BACK TO LOW PASS FILTER] . I can also set the LFO amount of then actual sound so I can in here and tweak the phase, the attack, rate, and amount of the LFO [BILL MANIPULATES LFO SETTINGS]. Amount controls how much of the LFO you hear, so let's put this down a litle bit so I can hear the actual effect [BILL APPLIES AND ADJUSTS LFO SETTINGS]. It control's how much of the LFO you actually here, and on the right, it goes on fast of this [BILL CONTINUES MANIPULATING LFO]. And you can change the shape of that as well, so I can make that a square wave if I want (BILL SETS LFO TO SQUARE WAVE]. We can control the envelope as well which will control how much of the filter is affected as I use the cutoff and resonance. It just kind of increase or decrease the range [BILL MANIPULATES CUTOFF AND RESONANCE]. Hear how bassy that gets? Or it take it up, it's a lot less bassy. I'll stop the LFO real quick to get a better idea of what's that going to sound like. [BILL APPLIES FILTER ADJUSTMENT]. Turn the envelope down.

[BILL CONTINUES MANIPULATION OF EFFECTS]

Well there you have it. That's how to set up in the master bus for DJing with Ableton Live and the BCR2000. In the next video, I'm going to show how this auto-maps to Reason, but for now this is Gearwire.Com and my name is I'm Bill Holland.